16 Dec
2007
16 Dec
'07
noon
Hi Richard
Those Octanes and the Origin 2000 use an "SCA" drive interface...
it' an 80 pin scsi interface that takes power and signals on the one
connector... sometimes you will see the drive called out as having
an 80 pin Centronics (SCA-2) connector ... ( just looking at CDW's
web page at the moment and there are about 17 different choices )
Seagate drives that will work all have LC as the last two
characters in the part number....
Most new drives all have Ultra 320 in their name someplace, but they
seem to work well also.
I know 140 Gbyte drives and 70 Gbyte drives will work in Octanes...
although those machines originally shipped with 4G and 9 Gbyte drives
way back there..
Mike
On Dec 13, 2007, at 2:10 PM, Richard wrote:
OK, with my new Origin 2000 machines, I was thinking
that I could use
these SGI drives+sleds that I had purchased previously, where the
seller said they would work in Onyx2/Origin machines. However, while
the sleds appear compatible, the drive interface is not.
Is there any online guide that compares the different drive sled
designs for SGI machines so that I can compare what's being offered on
ebay to identify the machines that can use it?
For instance, my drives have a high density connector that is only
about 1" long, but the Origin 2000 has a high density connector that
looks to be about 2-2.5" long.
Is my only recourse to scrape through individual manuals to try and
find diagrams?
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